About Doug Spindler

Doug Spindler is a technology consultant, digital forensic investigator and college professor. He holds numerous certifications and industry awards, including MCT, MCSE, and Microsoft MVP, and he founded Pacific IT Professionals an independent association for IT Professionals with over 4,000 members.

Some thirty years ago, the personal computer revolution began — and no other technology has evolved more quickly. Now there a new revolution, often referred to as the Internet of Things. Here’s what you need to know about it.

The design of today’s solid-state drives has made classic data-wiping techniques ineffective. But there are sanitizing procedures that will effectively render sensitive data on SSDs — and other rewritable storage devices — unintelligible.

Most Internet users should know by now that personal digital security is in large part our own choice and responsibility. But in truth, our electronic security is also in the hands of the companies we do business with — and they’re not all taking that fact seriously.

For decades, all devices connected to the Internet have had an IPv4 network address. But the IPv4 address space is nearly tapped out. To provide more headroom for new devices, we’re all transitioning — in fits and starts — to IPv6. Here why that’s important.

There are many good reasons to set up virtual machines on a Windows PC, including testing new configurations and saving old ones. Win8 Pro and Enterprise come with Microsoft’s Hyper-V application; here’s a detailed tour of how it works.

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